Availability to add a live device location question in survey form

Question

@ChristopherCounsell

I learned before that when creating a geopoint question in a Survey123 XLSForm and setting its default value to position, the location is automatically captured.

However, from my understanding, this picked location represents the device location at the moment the form is opened, not a continuously updated (live) location.

My question is:
Is it possible to get the live / updated device location while the form is still open?
For example, if the surveyor opens the form in one place and then moves to another location, can the geopoint value update automatically to reflect the new position?

I’m asking this in the context of geofencing in Survey123 Connect.
What I’m trying to achieve is:

* If the surveyor is within a specific distance from a predefined point, the remaining survey questions should appear.

* If he is outside that distance, those questions should remain hidden.

So my main concern is:
If the surveyor opens the form outside the allowed distance and then walks closer to the target location,
do they need to close and re-open the form for the questions to appear?
Or is there a way for the form to react dynamically to the updated location without reopening it?

Thanks in advance.

Neal_t_k · Answer

@SeifElDinYasser I had one more thought on a work around for this.  It is not elegant, but could be a solution given I am not sure the exact functionality is there:   What if you configure the geopoint the same way you describe but inside a repeat. The user would have to then keep adding repeats at different locations until the questions showed up for them.  Subsequent repeats are completely empty until they are created, so this should capture current location on the creation of the new repeat, not the start of the form.

SeifElDinYasser · Answer

Hi Philip,

There's no specific extent, applied geofencing here ensures that the user is about specific distance from a point he chose its name from another question, these points are pulled from a feature service, so I don't know in advance what the point he will choose.
The press to locate is suitable to get his current position, but I need to prevent the user to pick any other point on the map but his current location. So I'm still in the issue of validating his location input.

Keeping the geopoint question to be readonly can't be done with "press-to-locate" question the map will not be shown for the user and he will not be able to locate his current location.

So, I'm trying to find somehow keeps the user picking his current location only.

SeifElDinYasser · Answer

Hi Neal,

Your solution already validates to user to change his location based on his current position, but I also want to prevent user to enter any other location except his current position. "press-to-locate" option allows him to pick any point manually by hand.